Vishnu's Crowded Temple: India Since the Great Rebellion

Maria Misra

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Publisher:Allen Lane ISBN:9780713993677 Published Date:2nd August 2007 Dimensions:154 X 236 X 52 mm Weight:1.1615 kilograms Pages:576 Binding:Hardcover Illustrations:16 BW inset Condition:LikeNew Notes:2007 HB Allen Lane; mint in mint unclipped jacket

Short Description

There can be few more discussed countries in the world than India. This book provides a history which allow us to understand the historical trajectory of this emerging third-world super-state. It dramatizes the dynamic counterpoint between the resilient Indian people and a succession of ambitious, if flawed visions of the nation.

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Full Description

There can be few more discussed countries in the world today than India. In recent years it has shed its popular image as a poor, tradition-bound backwater to stand poised on the threshold of super-power status, rivalled only by China as the greatest winner in the post-Cold War world order. In "Vishnu's Crowded Temple" Maria Misra has written the essential history to allow us to understand the fascinating historical trajectory of this emerging third-world super-state. The book dramatizes the dynamic counterpoint between the resilient Indian people and a succession of ambitious, if flawed visions of the nation. This is an extraordinary story and Misra tells it charismatically with wit and style. "Vishnu's Crowded Temple" is the history of a wholly contemporary state, an India shaped both by western and eastern ideas, but the slave of neither - the harbinger of a resolutely post-modern democracy, at once wholly new and yet steeped in its past.

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